April 1, 2005
George Hotelling redesigns his blog for 1991
— this neat April Fool's gag gave me a wash of nostalgia #
Slashdot on the WordPress controversy
— my first Slashdotting; the server's being crushed, but still responsive #
Google prefetching first search result for Firefox users
— this seems really dumb to me; hitting unrequested pages wastes bandwidth and screws up server stats (via) #
Sin City comparisons of movie to comic
— nice visual design, and surprisingly positive early reviews #
Y Combinator
— Paul Graham, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell's unusual angel fund for very early startups (via) #
Laura K. Pahl is a plagiarist
— comedy writer messes around with a student trying to pay for a term paper, then turns her in (via) #
8.2 8.7 Quake strikes off Indonesian coast
— along same fault line, but no reports of tsunami activity yet (via) #
Big changes over at Upcoming.org
— a full API, tagging, e-mail/SMS reminders, and support for personal events! I hope everyone likes the changes #
Buy a fully-assembled Nintendo DS passthrough
— $20 cheap; used for loading homebrew demos and code onto the DS (via) #
Om Malik on Yahoo getting cool again
— they're making very smart moves, and they're wooing the geek crowd back #
Surfing the web on the PSP
— there've been more promising PSP hacks in the first three days than four years of the GBA #
First look at Yahoo 360
— anyone else notice the two "screenshots" are just mockups? (hint: look at the mix of aliased and anti-aliased type) (via) #
"Where are they now?" A-list blogger photo from SXSW 2000
— also, the three Blogger co-founders from this year's ETech (via) #
Curtis Poe tracks down his credit card thieves
— his detective footwork led to their on-site arrest yesterday; great story (via) #
School administrators blocking BitTorrent as "illegal"
— corporate firewalls do the same thing; it's just a protocol, people! #